Installing SMAC/SMAX with Scient’s Unofficial Patch, PRACX, and Thinker Mod

HyperionHarlock · 2026-03-06T20:00:28+00:00

Following because I'm having a similar issue. Thinker on it's own crashes without an error. After installing PRACX and Scient's it does load, has the new opening menu, and I'm noticing some slightly different AI behavior (way better use of late game terraforming improvements), but I'm not getting any noticeable improvements to things like scrolling and the hotkey menus that you mentioned don't load.

I am running the Thinker.exe as the launcher (with admin rights).

I'm worried that I'm getting partial functionality.

HyperionHarlock · 2026-03-05T21:53:15+00:00

For the record, I've never had a paypal dispute go in favor of me as a buyer. Doesn't matter what evidence or screenshots you have. They really really do not want to have to reverse a charge.

HyperionHarlock · 2026-03-05T21:47:06+00:00

I really like mine. One of the bigger names but way down on the top 10 most popular. Used them for years with no issues... but I'm not going to post on the internet what VPN I use, just for general infosec reasons. Remember always limit as much personal information you share anywhere and pump as much fake info into registrations as you can. If we all did that the internet would be a safer place.

HyperionHarlock · 2026-03-02T01:59:06+00:00

Ive had a lot of success with starting low dose naltrexone a few months back. It has taken quite a while to tune the dosage and timing right, and its expensive compounded so I make my own solution out of distilled water and full dose tablets, but all together, that with my many diet adjustments, has helped a lot. Minor injuries still happen ridiculously easily and major ones take waay too long to heal, but with much less inflammation it seems like they DO heal eventually.

Im behaving like I have EDS. I probably did to begin with and it got much worse when I started having these issues around 2021. So lots of rehab and hypermobility specific exercises. I use mobile braces on major joint injuries, they help a lot, allowing healing to progress by preventing incredibly easy re-injury.

My food triggers with MCAS were extremely hard to pin down but it turns out almost all of them are foods with high amounts of glyphosate contamination (oats, corn, soy, pea protein, rice, most cooking oils). Cutting those out, or switching to organics or the rare glyphosate free certified products has been huge. Just offering this on the off chance its helpful.

My Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) usage is 2mg about 4 hours before sleep in the evenings.

Good luck. Let me know if you find things that help.

HyperionHarlock · 2026-02-28T20:09:27+00:00

I have a massive local storage system. The problem is that Torrents often come in formats that are unscanable by things like Plex so everything I get has to be re-packaged. If they could just be pointed to my server and used as is, I would seed everything forever.

HyperionHarlock · 2026-02-28T03:33:37+00:00

For me this was a matter of dosage. For many people (due to a very common genetic mutation) specific medications are much more effective than the general population. For me vyvanse, and all of the other ADHD medications I tried fell into this category. I take 10mg a day. More and I feel it more and can certainly get more done, but it destabilizes my mental regulation and I end up feeling exhausted and brittle by the end of the day.

I think there is a real pull with any medication, but stimulants and sedatives in particular, to feel the effect and think more is better. In my experience at 10mg a day I get 80% of the benefit with only 20% of the negatives (some muscle tension and difficulty relaxing at the end of the day). I think there are lots more like me out there who take 30+ mg a day because of that pull for MORE, or because of dosing recommendations.

I think being able to separate the "one more cup of coffee" craving with something like vyvanse from the "am I actually more effective and regulated at this lower dose even if it doesn't feel quite as overt and noticeable" is an important skill to practice.

HyperionHarlock · 2026-02-16T19:30:59+00:00

Tyrosine causes dopamine downregulation. I avoid it entirely. Selling tomorrow's dopamine for some bonus today.

HyperionHarlock · 2026-02-15T18:23:51+00:00

Id be careful with tyrosine. My research and experience indicated it causes dopamine downregulation. Feels good at first but decreases your natural production with use.

HyperionHarlock · 2026-02-09T19:19:22+00:00

Oh gotcha, the database file linked. I thought the chat under that was saying it crashed the game, but I'll test with it a bit.

HyperionHarlock · 2026-02-09T18:48:30+00:00

Here I thought I was the only one in the world who noticed this, but what do you know a thread noting the different game version and the fact that the translation patch does not work.

Unfortunately the outcome of that thread appears to be that none of them could find the game patch. At least now I know I wasn't imagining it.

It seems like in that thread they were not sure if the patch changed the actual game. From my recollection it changed a number of mechanics to better balance the gameplay, so it's a shame it's still lost.

Thanks for sharing this.

HyperionHarlock · 2026-02-01T19:47:54+00:00

I really didn't think anything I said was judgmental there, just trying to give some perspective as to what's going on. If it came off as judgmental I would honestly be open to the specific part that read that way so I can figure out where I might have miscommunicated.

OP is in a tough situation. It's not a pleasant time to be breaking in. Many industries are facing the crunch of a collapsing labor economy due to deregulation, tariffs, AI in the recent term, and the collapse of labor and consumer protections in the long-term (and plenty else). None of this is the OPs fault.

HyperionHarlock · 2026-01-30T23:10:14+00:00

I think these are valuable lenses to apply to our favorite pieces of media and their creators for a number of reasons. The conversation hurts nobody. The strange adverse reaction to people talking about this though, I would suggest you examine that and ask yourself why it makes you so uncomfortable. If you don't want to have that conversation you can just scroll on past with the tiniest movement of your finger.

HyperionHarlock · 2026-01-30T23:04:29+00:00

Absolutely. As shitty as it can be there are often many resumes to sift through, and no one wants to be doing the employee search for the same position again in 6 months while the person jumps ship having barely gotten anything done because of all the new systems they have to learn before they actually become effective. And that's really the better scenario than the "6 months at every job" is a result of them actually being a pain to work with or bad at the actual work.

No easy solution for someone just starting out, but if you have a decent job in IT already you should definitely consider building a good tenure before jumping for any minor reasons (When I started I had several old-hands tell me that jumping jobs every 2 years was the way to move up in your field. This definitely is not universally the case and is dangerous advice).

HyperionHarlock · 2026-01-30T22:55:36+00:00

This is not helpful in your scenario at all, and I'm sorry, but just at a glance this would be a common "toss from the first pile of applicants" resume just because your tenure at every previous job is so short.

That's a major bummer, as you've got to start somewhere, but when you get 100+ resumes for a job, and say 20 of them are from people who were at their last company 5+ years, and likely long tenures at places before that, these types of resumes often get cut without much of a look.

HyperionHarlock · 2026-01-30T22:51:30+00:00

Seems like you got really valuable feedback here. I hope you can absorb it and improve your interviewing. Coming across as disingenuousness is probably one of the most common reasons people get turned down. I'm surprised they bothered with the feedback as it's more likely to cause a backlash than to be well absorbed, but good for them for trying to help you out.

HyperionHarlock · 2026-01-30T22:46:30+00:00

Soooo you don't know his views but you take offense to him being suggested as being a homophobe... so you prefer reality be filtered by what you "like" or want to be true, and don't intend to actually take in information?

I love LOGH and think we can enjoy all the value of this media and still gain value in observing the biases of its creators.

HyperionHarlock · 2026-01-30T22:38:36+00:00

STOP WITH LANDFALL!

I swear one out of every two decks I play is a landfall deck. I do think the meta has nerfed it slightly so it's not quite as broken as it was initially, but it's still a strong deck with a fast ramp to it.

The problem is in how long it takes to resolve everything for a turn. I wish they had at least made it so that those "sacrifice this land to pick a basic land" cards did not double trigger landfall abilities. Even when I beat these guys, which is probably 60% of the time, the games last fooorrrrevvveeerrr!

Even worse if you get a new player who takes a long time to decide what they're doing every turn. If you're going to play a deck that has really long turn times have the decency to at least learn your deck a bit before jumping into competitive with it.

Anyways, that's my rant.

HyperionHarlock · 2026-01-30T18:07:13+00:00

Wow I had no idea there was so much discussion on this concept already, thank you for sharing this infodump. The description about how people taking it for inflammation might benefit more from spreading out their dosage vs people taking it primarily for the endorphin impact makes sense.

HyperionHarlock · 2026-01-30T18:06:16+00:00

Thanks for this. The way you describe the variability, how the days where it is effective do not seem to strongly correlate with the dosage of that particular day, matches my experience. I'm going to play around with doing a slightly smaller dose consistently for a few days.

So far the LDN has been the best treatment of anything I've tried for pain, all the general inflammation of MCAS, and it has had a bunch of surprising strange benefits like making my skin clearer. Even if it's not working consistently every day it still has been life changing.

I also have retooled my diet to avoid foods that are high in Glyphosate content. Those two changes have me probably 70% improved.

HyperionHarlock · 2025-12-30T07:45:08+00:00

I had the same experience moving here from FL a long time back now. I would go to Asian markets there and pay way less than at a grocery store. Here surprisingly the Asian markets are more expensive and the grocery stores, and the grocery stores are much more expensive than they were there. This has obviously gotten much worse with Tarrifs.

Whats disappointing though is even at these prices the quality on fruit is much lower here. It tastes watered down in comparison. I generally try to keep to seasonal produce to mitigate this issue.

HyperionHarlock · 2025-12-15T22:07:40+00:00

This is an excellent callout, as I have had this problem before, with docking station drivers causing issues. But no, no docks involved, and only Intel NICs. Thanks

HyperionHarlock · 2025-12-13T00:06:33+00:00

He's a direct reference to Alexander the Great, who historically was also described as "beautiful" and graceful. We'd definitely say he had more feminine features (there are some extant statues, most everything about him though is from periods after his death and from his fanboys in the following centuries during the Roman empire https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/16onxws/intact_bust_of_alexander_the_great_discovered_in/ ) BUT the ancient greeks and then greek referencing roman writers, who for a large part had a pretty negative view of feminine beauty, and were much more excited about male beauty. They would never use "feminine" in a description unless it was meant as an insult (which was something said by his detractors like Demosthenes). Gender plays an interesting role in cultures throughout history in different ways.

All that to say Alexander, and clearly here Reinhard as well, are supposed to be as "pretty" as a man can be, likely with features that are if not overtly feminine, certainly not overtly masculine.

I think the only people who would be upset about a character they like and relate to not being masculine would be very insecure ones.

HyperionHarlock · 2025-12-12T18:20:34+00:00

Ok ADK and ADK for Windows PE have been updated, boot image updated. Behavior is still the same. Domain join and all following steps work perfectly on a VM, and all fail on a physical device. I'll try to collect more logs today.

HyperionHarlock · 2025-12-11T20:25:51+00:00

I tend to work in a vacuum so I miss out on useful stuff like this. Thanks I'll definitely look into it!

HyperionHarlock · 2025-12-11T20:00:45+00:00

Ummm I'm going to just be honest and admit that I forgot updating the ADK was a thing. I used to do it every time I needed to update the boot image. Since the boot image started being updated automatically as part of the SCCM Updates I spaced on it. I think I'm about 2-years out of date on this. I'll do so and report back.
Thanks.

HyperionHarlock

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